| Cyrillic | валидејн | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | والیدین | |
Borrowed fromArabicوَالِدَيْن(wālidayn),oblique dual ofوَالِد(wālid,“father, parent”). The Arabic form already means “parents”, but was additionally suffixed with the Azerbaijani plural ending, and the singular meaning “parent” was then backformed. Related withövlad(“child”), which is from the same Arabic root (and also a backformed singular).
valideyn (definite accusativevalideyni,pluralvalideynlər)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | valideyn | valideynlər |
| definite accusative | valideyni | valideynləri |
| dative | valideynə | valideynlərə |
| locative | valideyndə | valideynlərdə |
| ablative | valideyndən | valideynlərdən |
| definite genitive | valideynin | valideynlərin |